Pentacle Protection scented jar candle

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• House warding: burn the candle in the centre of the home and, once it is lit, trace a pentagram in the air over each outer door and window.
• Pentacle petition: draw a pentacle on paper, write the names of everyone in the household inside the circle, and set the jar on top of it for the length of the burn.
• Return the wax: once the candle is spent, a little of the hardened wax can be pressed into the corners of the jar and the jar kept on a windowsill facing the street.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Banishing pentagram: light the candle before performing a banishing ritual of the pentagram, so the space has a steady flame throughout.
• Altar ward: place it at the northern quarter, the station of earth, while circle-casting.

A Simple Working

• Wipe the jar clean and set it on a plate sprinkled with a ring of sea salt.
• Light the candle and say aloud who and what it is guarding.
• With your finger, trace a five-pointed star in the air above the flame.
• Walk to each outer door and trace the same star at head height.
• Return to the candle and let it burn for at least an hour before snuffing.
• Relight daily until it is spent, then sweep the salt out through the front door.

Pairs Well With

• Pentacle Protection oil: to dress the jar lid or the door frames.
• Sea salt: to ring the candle and close the circle.
• A pentacle altar tile: to set the jar upon during the burn.
• Black tourmaline: a classic protective stone to keep beside it.

What You Receive

One scented jar candle with a herb mixture in the wax; colours vary from candle to candle.

Origin & Lore

The pentagram is drawn in a single stroke that returns to its start, which is why so many cultures read it as a closed, unbroken guard. Enclosed in a circle it becomes the pentacle, which in Wicca and modern witchcraft stands for the four elements crowned by spirit and serves as the sign of protection above all others. This candle is made to put that sign to work around the home.

A pentacle is a pentagram held inside a circle: the star that guards, bound by the ring that keeps everything inside it safe.

In the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the hero’s shield bears a gold pentangle, described as the “endless knot” standing for his five wits, five fingers, the five wounds of Christ, the five joys of Mary and five knightly virtues. Renaissance magicians drew the human figure inside a pentagram, and the pentacle as a symbol of witchcraft and protection was set firmly in place by 20th-century Wicca. The scented jar candle itself is a modern product made in honour of that sign.